Mar 29, 2014 15:08
10 yrs ago
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Spanish term

oficina de sorteos

Spanish to English Law/Patents Law (general) oficina de sorteos
oficina de sorteos de violencia contra la mujer y familia

Discussion

AllegroTrans Mar 31, 2014:
Asker has lost interest
lorenab23 Mar 30, 2014:
@ asker Can you please tell us if this is from Ecuador? if so Ecuador has a computerized "sorteo" system which assigns cases at random to the different judges.
AllegroTrans Mar 29, 2014:
Insufficient context We need to konw
a) which country this is from
and b) it would be helpul to have more text/context

Proposed translations

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office of case assignments

After researching on the Internet, it seems that there is a missing comma in an enumeration (there's no way I can be sure without more context).

It does seem, however, that it refers to different units or offices in a court system: "the office of case assignments, office of violence against women and families, ...".
Peer comment(s):

neutral AllegroTrans : which country's court system, bearing in mind the asker hasn't even told us? Couldn't it just as easily be part of the Police or the Social Services?
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Office of domestic violence

sorteos can mean
dodging, evasion ...and it forms the basis for my answer (guess)

Meridy
Peer comment(s):

disagree Guillermo Urbina Valdés : "Sorteo" means dodging as in "sortear un obstáculo". "Sortear" means "Evitar con maña o eludir un compromiso, conflicto, riesgo o dificultad". Therefore, unless there is missing punctuation, I doubt there would be an "Office to avoid responsibility for...
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disagree AllegroTrans : Too much of a guess - and no office would have a name like this, it would say "prevention of" or something.....
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